It ain't about....

Everything I have seen from Karl have been based on evidence and have been of a scientific nature. If he points out some shortcomings - they are based on evidence. If you would like to say he has an ajenda - then I think his agenda is purely scientific. My $ .02

Stephen Waits said:

Zoltan Csuka said:

This must be just one of Karl's other usernames. Karl should have
created a profile with some brain, though. His own username (or
whoever he is) was atleast trying to cover-up his biases with some
reasoning...

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No way. Karl speaks his (well-educated and experienced) mind. I
happen to side with him on nearly everything he says too.

Any rational person couldn't think he'd be using a second username
just to go out of his way to bash the camera.

--Steve

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Ron Merkel

Yes Dave, the pictures so far from Sam and Tony have me looking intently(although I decided on the D100 a few weeks back and got it). The action shots were reasonable, but I wonder about artifical light (i.e. basketball gym or at a football game, as I take a lot of High School shots), as well as soccer on not sunny days (shoot some U19 games for my son).

I only go up to A3 and A4 on my S9000 printer and the D100 print just fine. I don't sell anything, but I love to shoot and print for the various teams around town.

My biggest problem is that I came up from an E10 (which I love), but the low ISO really made me hit the wall, as well as the write times. Working with RAW is not a problem (since I have been doing that for quite a while now) and I believe most people would eventually go that route anyway.

The shots that have been posted in the Glades really do show off the natural look of the Foveon sensor. It sure will be interesting to see how the whole package is reviewed by Phil.
So what kind of shots do you find the D1X still not up to par on?
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Mike

Hi Mike

Mike Ditta said:

So what kind of shots do you find the D1X still not up to par on?
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Mike

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I love the camera. It's not that it's not up to par, it's that I take photographs not so much for the images themselves but for what might be inside.

I might take a macro of a flower and only want to use one pistle

I might take a lansdcape and only use one tree.

If I take a landscape and I'm happy with image, I can very well print it out at a very large size after interpolation, and it might very well look fine. But not so with that one pistel or that one tree.

That's where high quality drum scans and film would come in handy and that is what I hope that future Foveon releases will replace.

Dave

WOW David... OK, I can definitely see your point now. I would be happy just to get that one flower! Good luck....
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Mike

Hi David,

please give me the URL of Sam's samples, as I would lik eto see the bright side as well, still like the ideas, but sofar don't enjoy the results,

jacques.

Hi jacques

Sam has started a number of threads in the Sigma Forum. The latest is:

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1027&message=3832201

However there are three or four others. He's probably posted about 100 or 200 images altogether. He's not a professional photographer and it shows. However he frames images well. The samples are impressive more so because he's not a pro.

Dave

jacques said:

Hi David,

please give me the URL of Sam's samples, as I would lik eto see the
bright side as well, still like the ideas, but sofar don't enjoy
the results,

jacques.

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